My wife wanted to use pumpernickel flour (whole or dark rye flour) before it gets too old. We have already made “classic” pumpernickel bread...

I do not remember when I started home roasting green coffee beans but it was sometime ago. I started with  an electric popcorn popper, then ...

This is one of the left-over control dishes. I had a package of “medium firm” tofu 豆腐 which just reached “BUB” (Best Used By) date, the last...

I would like to have fresh cucumbers (if available Japanese cucumber but American mini-cucumber is a great substitute). Usually American min...

“Dassai” 獺祭 is a well known and popular sake in Japan and US. We like it for its very clean, fruity flavors. We used to get  “Dassai 50” da...

Mitsuba  三つ葉 is a sort of Japanese parsley mainly used as a garnish or topping for certain dishes such as soup , katsu-don  カツ丼 and chawan-m...

We used to grow garlic chives or “nira” ニラ in our herb garden but it failed in two ways: 1) the garlic chives were very fibrous except when ...